High Fiber

It’s been a few years since researchers published findings that eating broccoli and plantains could be good medicine for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. But how many doctors have recommended the food as a dietary approach to quell symptoms of irritable bowel disease (IBD)? Much has been published about the role of diet for treating IBD, but sometimes the important of eating specific foods gets lost in the shuffle, so to speak.

Researchers have long known that a diet rich in fiber can help protect against diabetes and obesity, but they have been unclear as to how. Now, investigators from France and Sweden say they have unveiled this mechanism. This is according to a study recently published in the journal Cell.

Here is yet another reason to get excited for Thanksgiving dinner: Eating fiber-rich foods, such as Brussels sprouts, apples, sweet potatoes and greens, can help protect against breast cancer. A review of 10 studies found that higher fiber consumption is linked to a reduced risk of this dreaded illness that afflicts one out of every eight women in America. Another study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that a dietary intake of 20 to 30 grams of fiber per day can lower estrogen levels, a factor involved in the early development of breast.

Dietary fiber (DF) intake in American children is suboptimal, increasing the risk of GI distress and contributing to poor diet quality. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of introducing two high-fiber snacks per day on gastrointestinal function as well as nutrient and food group intake in healthy children ages 7-11 years old.

Body weight in young adulthood and diet appeared to be associated with the risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to results presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research.